SL on Asus EEE PC 901?

Has anyone tried out the sl client on any of the Asus mini notebooks?

Not on an Asus, but I run SL atm on an Acer Aspire One 150L, not a performance-machine, but workable.

I've tried it on my Asus 900A. It's very slow, mostly trapped by the disk. I'll try it again later on with a USB HD, and I hear that with the better Intel drivers, maybe some better performance... but I'll clone my flash drive first.

I also own an 900a. With voice disabled and all settings at minimums, it starts out at 5-8FPS but quickly falls to .5FPS without fail. Text lag is so bad as to make the game useless even as an IM client. The other owner claimed the problem was the SSD- the 900A has an excep-tionally slow one fitted by Best Buy to save money. If this is the problem, other Atom netbooks should be faster in SL.

If it's not solely the SSD, by the way, are there any speed-ups I should try?

I just updated to Xorg 1.5 and the latest Intel drivers (kinda had to, Gentoo marked it stable and so far I'm liking it). It's getting 3-5 fps on close-up of the Rhenworks stall in Northstar (yeah, perv that I am) but when I turn to exit the mall, I freeze up hard enough that I need to restart X to rework it (but I can SSH into the 900A).

Using just the basic extentions, and redirected the cache to a RAM disk so SSD speed isn't much of an issue now. going to reset and work it w/o any extentions at all, see how far that gets me, also see if there's any Intel tweaks as GLXgears gets me 60 fps.

I used a ramdisk, run an old 1.9-era version of CoolSL, and downloaded GMAbooster to set my GMA950 chip up from 166 to 400MHZ. The game still freezes up a bit, even with draw distance at a brutal 16, but it's certainly usable for communications and roleplaying. I can sometimes get a whole 5FPS in stores, admittedly with only some of the walls even rendered because of the draw settings. I'll try tweaking my graphics core, but I think the primary bottleneck is just the wofully slow CPU that can't cope with the engine. Hopefully, some faster or dualcore atom netbook will hit soon.

Also, basic extensions, what Drake refers to, I thought were mandatory. Can't get GMA950 hardware to run with them, and I know a few other posters here have had the same problem. Or, maybe hir new drivers fix that?

Maybe, maybe not. I pulled Xorg 1.5 to work, tried tweaking it... and still freezes hard. Ugh.

I'm waiting for Atom/ION based systems, which if Engadget is to be believed will be comming out late July.

I've been trying SL on my 900A with Jaunty Jackalope with no joy at all. The viewer freezes after a short amount of time in-world -- seconds to a couple of minutes -- and it freezes X Windows hard, the screen is frozen and the system won't accept any keyboard or mouse input. (The system isn't totally frozen; the SSH daemon still accepts connections.) It was no better with the Xandros Linux that originally came on the 900A. I have /home mounted on a class 6 SD card, not the internal disk, but I tried it on the internal disk as well with the same result.

I know there are newer Intel drivers than the ones that come with Jaunty; is there any packaged way to install them, or do I have to build them myself?

Edited to say that I found a solution a page back in this section -- uncommenting export LL_GL_NOEXT made it work, so now I can walk SL on my 900A! (3fps doesn't really count as running LOL)